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...class membership include participation in the many social activities so integral a part of class life and the footing of a very tangible bound between classmates which in the Freshman year is the foundation of class unity later on. The Unclassified student, by the new degree, will no longer drift through the first and more important period of his Harvard life on a discouraging sea of isolation, but will early learn the advantages of being an acknowledged though provisional factor in class life...
...opening address on the afternoon of April 2 will be given by Walter Lippmann '10, of the "New Republic". Mr. Lippmann, one of the leading liberals of America, is the author of "a preface to Politics", "The Stakes of Diplomacy", "Drift and Mastery", and "Liberty and the News". When in college Mr. Lippmann was the originator of a club which was in many respects similar to the present Liberal Club...
...chief drawback in carrying out such a plan, has been the lack of any place for keeping reports, even if they were made. The Class Day records are kept in an inaccesible store room in the basement of Widener; the Student Council records drift from Secretary to Secretary, and are slowly being depleted due to loss and carelessness. The whole difficulty could be nicely settled if the Student Council were given permanent quarters where records of this kind could be kept. The management of the Union has agreed to set aside a room for the use of the Council...
Barring those who have post-graduate plans for the Law, Engineering, or Medical Schools, it is astonishing how few members of 1921 know what they are going to do. Many intend to drift through the summer months, perhaps in idle recuperation from the winter's activities, perhaps in travel abroad,--guided by the hope that "something will turn up." Others have vague ideas about starting "on the street," usually for lack of a better notion as to what they are qualified to undertake. Still more expect to ask "the old man" for a job in his office until they...
Will they accept the challenge of continue to drift no-whither in the bottomless bog of threatening anarchy...